What are the protection rules for a killed country restarting? It appears it wasn't 99 turns.

It works differently as a restart: https://www.earthempires.com/...ection-52521?t=1713656359

Does the game communicate that in any way?

not really

No, and it's not the same across servers. At war in 1a and Team currently, and it appears to be 17 turns in team and (I think) 24 turns in 1a, so those of use who had already died in Team had bad intel when the CS started killing peeps in 1a.

Unless something changed it used to be oop on the 16th turn of a restart.

Would it be sufficient to have turns played changed to 84 or whatever the right value is? Then countries would exit protection on turn 100 as expected.

It's definitely turn 16 OOP for a restart. Turn 15 could not spy, turn 16 I could.

I think that would be a reasonable solution so people would have something ingame to communicate it

How about a warning screen when you have the tutorial option selected?

Was more difficult than expected to change turns played. I instead added a warning to the status page that tells you how many turns are left in protection.

Yes this got me killed on my restart last set so that’s very helpful for new players on alliance